| Title |
Author |
Notes |
Grades |
| Saving Sweetness |
Diane Stanely |
dialect |
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| Milkman’s Boy |
Donald Hall |
Early 1900’s change over time |
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| Osbert |
Elizabeth Kimmel |
primary |
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| Beatrice’s Goat |
Page McBrier |
Vocab |
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| Relatives Came |
Cynthia Rylant |
Vocab |
intermediate |
| Angel’s in the Dust |
Margot Theis Rowen |
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| Recess Queen |
Alexis o’Neill |
Fun language, playful |
|
| She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on her Head |
Kathryn Lasky |
Vocab |
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| Way We Do it in Japan |
Geneva Cobb |
Vocab, context clues |
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| White Dynamite and Curly Kid |
Bill Martin |
Dialect and voice |
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| Knots on a Counting Rope |
Bill Martin |
metaphor |
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| Zombie in Love |
Kelly DiPucchio |
Context Clues - Great vocabulary, Inferring from pictures. Just fun! Word Play |
k-5 |
| Oink? |
Margie Palatini |
Good for vocab development (content, pigsty, disgraceful, untidy, slop, downwind, dab, concluded, insist, distraught, insufferable, gathering, fond, convinced, refreshing, exhausted) |
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